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Introduction:
Weather Vane is a Mac OS X application that retrieves
the weather forecast for U.S. and international locations and displays it in
the menu bar.
Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) or better
To install, drag the Weather Vane application from the
disk image to a convenient location on your hard drive. The Applications folder
is a good place.
Double click the Weather Vane icon to launch. On first launch, you will be presented with the Weather Vane preferences window:
Clicking on the AccuWeather logo will take you to the accuweather.com web
site.
Enter your city or, for U.S. locations, you can alternately use
your zip code (don't include the +4). Set your desired refresh
interval (15 minutes - 360 minutes) and uncheck the "Use Metrics
Measurements" checkbox if you prefer the temperature and other
measurements to be displayed using English measurements. You can
change the color of the temperature text by clicking the "Menu
Text Color" colorwell and selecting your desired color. If
you don't want the F/C displayed beside the temperature, uncheck
the "Display F/C" checkbox.
Weather Vane now includes the option to enable/disable it at launch. Just check the "Add to Login Items" checkbox
if you want
Weather Vane to launch at login. You can also select one of
5 languages.
Click the "Search" button you and will be presented
with all of the matching locations for your city, both U.S. and
international. Searching for Paris will display these choices:

Select your desired location, click the "Save and Close" button and Weather
Vane will fetch your forecast. The menu bar icon will display the current
temperature and an icon indicating the current state of the weather. When
you click on the menu bar icon, a menu simliar to the following will appear:

When you hover over Weather Vane's menu bar icon, a tooltip
will appear, giving you more detailed information about your current conditions.
That's it!. Weather Vane will fetch the latest forecast
periodically, based on the interval selected in its preferences. If you would
like to have Weather Vane start when you login, add it to your login items in:
System Preferences->Accounts(select your account)->Login Items. You can drag
its icon into the login items window, or click the plus sign below the login
items window and navigate to it in the Finder.
A copy of this documentation is included on the disk image
with Weather Vane.
For support send email from the support page.
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